Transcript 2011 MRS Forum Highlights (MRS Spring Meeting- April 24

Winner of 2011 Acta Materialia
Gold Medal and Prize
www.sciencedirect.com Acta Materialia 58 (2010) 5545–5546
The MRS Symposium on Frontiers in Thin Film Epitaxy and Nanostructured
Materials (April 24-29, 20111) was dedicated to Professor Jay Narayan, The
John Fan Family Distinguished Chair Professor, North Carolina State University
2011 MRS Forum Highlights (MRS
Spring Meeting- April 24-29, 2011)
The MRS Acta Materialia Gold Medal Symposium on Frontiers in Thin Film
Epitaxy and Nanostructured Materials was hugely successful at the 2011 MRS
Spring Meeting, April 24-29. The MRS Forum, sponsored by Kopin Corporation,
was dedicated to the seminal research contributions of Jagdish (Jay) Narayan,
winner of 2011 Acta Materialia Gold Medal and Prize in the field of materials
science and engineering, and to his leadership in materials science worldwide
through professional societies and the National Science Foundation. Professor
Narayan is the John C. C. Fan Family Distinguished Chair Professor in the
Department of Materials Science and Engineering in the College of
Engineering at North Carolina State University. He also holds the Distinguished
Visiting Scientist appointment at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
2011 MRS Forum Highlights (MRS Spring
Meeting- April 24-29, 2011) Contd.
The MRS Forum, which included a dozen Invited Talks and twice as many
Invited Short Presentations, addressed Narayan’s pioneering contributions in
fundamentals of thin film epitaxy across the misfit scale through the
paradigm of domain matching epitaxy, novel thin film heterostructures
integrated with silicon, three-dimensional epitaxial self-assembled
structures, quantum-well nanostructuring leading to Nano-Pocket LED
structures, fundamentals of ion-solid and laser-solid interactions, laser
annealing, rapid thermal processing, pulsed laser deposition, and formation
of novel supersaturated semiconductor alloys and nanostructured materials
for next-generation devices and systems.
2011 MRS Forum Highlights (MRS Spring
Meeting- April 24-29, 2011) Contd.
The Forum specifically addressed the role of defects and interfaces (grain
boundaries including) in controlling the properties of thin film
heterostructures and nanostructured materials. The control or
engineering of defects and interfaces will be critical to our ability in
harnessing and realizing the fruits of nanostructured materials. Atomic
structure and bonding characteristics of atoms near surfaces and
interfaces were presented with unprecedented Sub A resolution to
establish correlations with properties and obtain and preserve critical
advantages of nanoscale materials. Fundamentals of laser-solid
interactions and theories of laser annealing and pulsed laser deposition,
pioneered by Narayan’s group, led to novel rapid thermal processing and
novel materials with unique and improved properties. Narayan’s discovery
of domain matching epitaxy addresses epitaxy across the misfit scale for
epitaxial thin film heterostructures and three-dimensional assembled
nanodots, which are needed to integrate functionalities on a silicon chip.